Meeting the Call at the Clinton German Seminary by William A. Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 27, 1913

Meeting the Call at the Clinton German Seminary

By William A. Spicer

It is a sign of the times that the believers so love to give for the missionary advance, as the financial reports show from year to year, and that the youth in training are so ardently answering in their hearts the call of the regions beyond. That way lies the finishing of the work,—the witness carried into all the world, then the end,—and the Lord has made his people willing.

Our training-schools are so many doors opening outward into the fields of service. I saw it anew the other day in a first visit to the German Seminary, at Clinton, Mo. There is a hard-at-work

student body of about one hundred twenty at Clinton, pushing their studies in both German and English. The buildings and industrial equipment afford facilities for giving a practical training to fit the youth to be direct factors in the work, whether Providence calls to business life—that business to be run for God and the hastening on of his work—or to direct service in the missionary field. It is a good place for our German young people.

The call of the unworked fields sounds continually in the hearts of teachers and students. Already this new school has supplied workers for Central America and South America, as well as for the home fields, and others are ready to follow on. One recognizes at once that the missionary spirit is the dominant feature in the seminary.

The seminary board was in session at the time of my visit, planning the work for the coming year. The report of Elders Haffner and Grauer, who have been soliciting gifts for the school, was a most cheering one. Well may our German brethren take special pleasure in keeping this school in the front rank of agencies for the hastening on of the last message. W. A. S.